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1756 "The Big One"; body counts -- rank: 247

... put up against the wall. > >Louis P.. > > >Charles - Where is Stalin when you need him ? Is it true that Stalin said "for some people, four walls are three too many ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Tue May 19 07:01:19 PDT 1998

1757 populism vs. Marxism (was RE: Frank Sinatra) -- rank: 247

... of > thousands of their own citizens in the various post-Stalin gulags. > > > -- Dennis where do you put East Timur? Incidentally, and ... archives, has there been an update on the estimate of Stalin's victims or conclusive evidence regarding the motives behind some ...

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Author:	Richard Marens
Date:	Mon May 18 17:29:50 PDT 1998

1758 "The Big One" -- rank: 247

... put up against the wall. > >Louis P.. > > >Charles - Where is Stalin when you need him ? Is it true that Stalin said "for some people, four walls are three too many ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 18 13:38:49 PDT 1998

1759 Boudy counts, was: populism vs. Marxism, in turn was: Frank Sinatra -- rank: 247

... the attitude of the >regime toward American investment. As for Stalin, were the Gulags and >wars against the Kulaks qualitatively worse ... that gives us better choices than one between I. V. Stalin and J. C. Calhoun. That some things are *very* bad ...

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Author:	Brad De Long
Date:	Mon May 18 12:52:03 PDT 1998

1760 populism vs. Marxism (was RE: Frank Sinatra) -- rank: 247

... has >mattered politically. As far as history goes, >marxism is Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, and all the other >swine, not merely ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Mon May 18 07:35:58 PDT 1998

1761 Were the Nazis radical environmentalists? -- rank: 247

... he was a widely published writer in the USSR in Stalin's time. Was Stalin right about the 'zapovedniki'? It was just part of the ...

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Author:	Mark Jones
Date:	Sun May 10 11:51:11 PDT 1998

1762 Black Radical Congress and "the Left" -- rank: 247

Hello everyone, It appears from the commentary I've seen that Black Radical Congress allowed "whites" to attend. So I suppose one would have to ask what is the point of the comment that "whites" were excluded? It seems to me that a lot of this "debate" lacks specifics about what ...

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Author:	Doyle Saylor
Date:	Mon Jun 22 10:03:04 PDT 1998

1763 Fascism and big business -- rank: 247

... in 1933. He broke with the Nazis over the Hitler-Stalin pact, so presumably he was a martyr in the cause ... of anti-Communism, thinking that the Nazis were soft on Stalin. As early as 1924 Thyssen said 'Democracy with us represents ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Thu Jun 18 03:30:35 PDT 1998

1764 SCOTT MCLEMEE ON BUKHARIN (NY TIMES BOOK REVIEW) -- rank: 247

I have to say that Scott McLemee doesn't seem to know what he is talking about. I guess he must have gone to Princeton and studied under Steve Cohen, eh? How else do we explain this bizarre claim that Bukharin was almost unknown except as a character in novels until ...

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Author:	Rosser Jr, John Barkley
Date:	Mon Jun 15 08:23:47 PDT 1998

1765 SCOTT MCLEMEE ON BUKHARIN (NY TIMES BOOK REVIEW) -- rank: 247

June 14, 1998 From the Dustbin of History Begun in prison, this autobiographical novel by Nikolai Bukharin was never finished. By SCOTT MCLEMEE f all the early Soviet leaders, Nikolai Bukharin had perhaps the greatest range of interests and talents. He was a lifelong student of the natural sciences, a gifted ...

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Author:	James Farmelant
Date:	Sun Jun 14 06:55:44 PDT 1998

1766 Greed is good -- rank: 247

... aka corporations. By the same logic, they should adore Joseph Stalin, the chief icon in the 'cult of the individual,' who ... benefit of being more charismatic than Bill Gates. Any libertarian Stalin-lovers out there? Regards, WS

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Thu Jun 11 10:15:56 PDT 1998

1767 Soviet and US Economy -- rank: 247

Louis Proyect wrote: >"Lew," like assorted fans of Stalin or Trotsky, is obsessed with the >"Russian" questions. My suggestion ... I want to here is one of those tedious, interminable Stalin v. Trotsky debates here. No, they're not even debates ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jul 19 12:59:34 PDT 1998

1768 HD White and the Soviets -- rank: 247

... Soviet Union. This is not so far fetched; look how Stalin got rid of his general staff. Old "Uncle Joe" had ... makes you think Chambers didn't die an agent of Stalin after accomplishing his mission. Leaving American policy blind. Honi soit ...

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Author:	Tom Lehman
Date:	Tue Jul 7 14:21:10 PDT 1998

1769 Comparative Genocide totals? -- rank: 247

... panix.com> >It's interesting that the death tolls under Stalin and Mao are considered >indictments and convictions of entire social ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Fri Jul 3 09:20:43 PDT 1998

1770 Cuba's Destiny -- rank: 247

... dialogues in the Inferno. You don't need to know Stalin's life to make judgments about the moral dilemm

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Author:	Mark Jones
Date:	Fri Aug 28 02:21:45 PDT 1998